A Day In The Life of the Internet
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Facebook’s message charge shows how to make money out of desperate fans
Facebook is on to a good thing with its £11 charge for fans to contact their idols. But here’s a way for celebrities to cash in too One of Facebook’s strangest revenue-building schemes of recent times is its new decision to charge civilians to send messages to celebrities. Messaging Tom Daley, for instance, will cost nearly…
Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
This is an excellent short lecture on the true value of privacy. Even if you had no profiles online, you’re still being recorded on every camera in offices buildings, malls and airports by CCTV. What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long?…
How Smart Phones Make You Smarter
by Markham Heid April 10, 2013, 12:05 pm EDT Boost your brainpower with Bejeweled. Spending a few minutes gaming on your phone can make you smarter, finds new research published inPLoS ONE. After 4 weeks of playing phone-based games for an hour a day, 75 people significantly improved their working memory, focus, spatial memory, or multitasking ability, the…
Twitter and Facebook ‘addicts’ suffer withdrawal symptoms
Facebook and Twitter users suffered withdrawal symptoms when forced to go cold turkey as part of a scientific study into the addictiveness of social media, academics have found. By Matthew Sparkes 1:33PM BST 11 Apr 2013 In a study by researchers at the University of Winchester, ten self-confessed Facebook “addicts” and ten prolific tweeters were asked…